# March on with your bad self (plant your March mini rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973 "2025-03-01T16:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/141 "2025-03-15T15:41:08Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Never in the history of humanity has this ever been a solution to addiction. A tracheotomy is a solution for nicotine addiction. You tell me… “Is this treatment a solution that’s right for you?” ( Taken from a shitty Pharma comercial ) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/142 "2025-03-15T16:30:19Z")
Yeah, actually my mom smokes too. At least she tries to quit. But Brother is a full tilt boogie type of guy. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/143 "2025-03-15T17:17:01Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Most every time the evil cancer sticks win. My mom died of old age and with lung cancer and at the end was weak could barely see or walk, started to refuse food and drink. Except chocolate she ate chocolate. And smoked Marlboro reds. Still had the strength to flick her bic. It was the last activity she engaged in. > > She tried to quit dozens of times. Could never shake the habit. The same thing happened with my mother. She was a lifetime smoker, and it physically destroyed her. Smoking those stupid cancer sticks resulted in multiple surgeries on her mouth & gums, and later lung cancer. She died a couple years ago, but made it to the age of 80, amazingly. She smoked until the very end. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > He sounds like my brother, who has smoked all his life. I worry he’ll go out the same way. My 59 year old brother smokes, is obese, _and_ is drunk 24/7. He looks horrible and I don’t think he’s going to live much longer. His wife is also drunk 24/7 and looks even worse. I give her less than a year. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/144 "2025-03-15T17:43:37Z")
I think I have talked about my mailbox in this building before. Before I moved in during last October, I informed management and maintenance that the lock on my mailbox door was broken. They have never gotten around to fixing it. As the mailbox in the entry hallway and you need a code to unlock the front door and get in, it is not big problem. One day, I forget just how long ago, I swung the door of my mailbox open and it fell off. I tried fitting it back in. I couldn’t. I ended up leaving it stuck diagonally in my mail box. The next day, somebodyh had placed it back on the hinges. It kept falling off. Somebody kept fixing it. One day, I found my mailbox door lying on the steps right near the front door. The next day, it was back in place. This morning, there was a new door on my mailbox. As my Gobhi was picking me up in a few minutes, I did not go upstairs, look for my mailbox key and see if it worked on the new lock. When she dropped me off, my mailbox had no door. Tha saga continues. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/145 "2025-03-15T19:58:25Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > My 59 year old brother smokes, is obese, _and_ is drunk 24/7. He looks horrible and I don’t think he’s going to live much longer. His wife is also drunk 24/7 and looks even worse. I give her less than a year. At least they have each other. (right?) ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/146 "2025-03-15T20:39:04Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > A tracheotomy is a solution for nicotine addiction. No, it isn’t. As a nurse I watched smokers use a trach to smoke. Behavior supports and medications prescribed by an addiction/psychiatric treatment specialist is a far better bet. First we have to train enough of those treatment specialists and then we have to get public and private insurance to pay for the treatment without a years long protracted battle. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/147 "2025-03-15T21:24:44Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > No, it isn’t. As a nurse I watched smokers use a trach to smoke. I am very sorry that you had to witness that. I am very sorry that I had to be an in-law related to that. I am very sorry that I’ve had to hold someone I care about who was sobbing and crying in pain and grief all night long for days because of that (yes, death was the logical outcome of his cancer). Smokers are Mother Fucking Selfish Bastards who leave the rest of us to clean up the Shitty Mess they make of themselves and their lives. \< Change My Opinion \> ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/148 "2025-03-15T23:14:57Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Smokers are Mother Fucking Selfish Bastards who leave the rest of us to clean up the Shitty Mess they make of themselves and their lives. > > \< Change My Opinion \> Businesses that market deadly, addictive products in such a way that their customers become addicts are motherfucking selfish bastards. Smokers are just victims who tend to litter, but once you cross the line into addiction, it’s not that you’re a motherfucking selfish bastard, it’s that you devote a lot of time and income to the motherfucking selfish bastards that hijacked your brain. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/149 "2025-03-15T23:18:57Z")
I agree with this. OTTOMH Malcolm X was addicted to heroin and cigarettes. He beat heroin. I understand how hard it is to stop. I still don’t understand why people start. I remember an anti-smoking lecture in elementary school which included actual preserved lungs in some kind of clear platic. The non-smoker lung reminded me of unbaked dough. The smoker’s lung was almost entirely black and had problems that were obvious even to nine year olds. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/150 "2025-03-16T07:08:44Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I still don’t understand why people start. Mental health issues can be - as I’m sure you understand - a real bitch. And, as I hope you also understand, people will do anything, _anything_ under bad circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/151 "2025-03-16T08:19:24Z")
… to make the bad feelings go away. (Sorry, I was doing too many things at once, and realized I didn’t quite finish my thought here.) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/152 "2025-03-16T14:12:38Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I remember an anti-smoking lecture in elementary school which included actual preserved lungs in some kind of clear platic. The non-smoker lung reminded me of unbaked dough. The smoker’s lung was almost entirely black and had problems that were obvious even to nine year olds. You and I and the rest of the people who post here? We received a good education. What scares me is how soon schools will stop giving those lectures and how soon that will be called ‘Fake News’. “Meh, that’s all Hooey! It’s just ‘Tobacco Derangement Syndrome’. Neener-Neener!” ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/153 "2025-03-16T14:36:44Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Businesses that market deadly, addictive products in such a way that their customers become addicts are motherfucking selfish bastards. Smokers are just victims who tend to litter, but once you cross the line into addiction, it’s not that you’re a motherfucking selfish bastard, it’s that you devote a lot of time and income to the motherfucking selfish bastards that hijacked your brain. There was a movement ( please don’t tell me it was 20 years ago already? ) once that would have limited cigarettes and grown leaf tobacco to ‘export only’ status. Yes, that is also evil. All of the rest of the world cried foul at talk of ending tobacco agriculture and of the ‘enforced morality’ of the US. Limiting exports to overseas would have appeased them, but it still would have made us unimaginable monsters for continuing to poison the rest of the world with a smile. So people talked and talked and talked… and in the end they did nothing and the monsters still churned out tobacco and death. Each pach should have inscribed on the side, “Pecunia Triumphos Super Omnes”. “Money Triumps Over All” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/154 "2025-03-16T15:01:19Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > > > A tracheotomy is a solution for nicotine addiction. > > No, it isn’t. As a nurse I watched smokers use a trach to smoke. As a pathologist, smoking has been very good to me. Not the sort of income you feel good about, though. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/155 "2025-03-16T18:01:13Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Mental health issues can be - as I’m sure you understand - a real bitch. Yeah, my brother became a junky partially as a way to self-medicate. Obviously that wasn’t a good decision but people with mental health issues often struggle with rationality. As for cigarettes, my mom had a boyfriend who was a racist though otherwise he was a nice and funny guy (yet I still couldn’t like a guy who was racist). Also he was morbidly obese and a chain-smoker. He died from a combination of diabetes and lung cancer. I didn’t really mourn him but felt bad for my mom. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/156 "2025-03-17T13:41:04Z")
I’m sure people were worried, so I’m pleased to report cracklings were back at Captain D’s last Friday. The previous week was apparently a glitch. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/157 "2025-03-17T17:26:36Z")
I asked my parents one time why they started smoking since it was so nasty (my dad smoked until I was in college, my mom smoked until she retired) they both said it was becasue everyone else they knew smoked. The cigarette companies actually advertised how ti was good for you while all the time knowing how addictive it was. My brother smoked for awhileafter he moved away, I tried it once and couldnt breate and never tried again. My Dad had COPD and my mom had lung cancer. Fuck cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/158 "2025-03-17T19:51:53Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > I tried it once So the same question could be asked of you: why did you try it? I don’t know how much exposure one needs to nicotine in order to become addicted. Some of the information out there suggests that a single use can start addiction ([Nicotine Dependence: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24482-nicotine-dependence)), but I don’t know what that statement is based on: clinical studies? Lying in the name of public health? If it’s true, though, even trying one puts you at risk of addiction. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/159 "2025-03-17T19:55:29Z")
I guess I was unclear. Back in the day. cigarettes had ads on tv and radio. Doctors endorsed smoking. I meant why does anybody my age (50) or younger start? We have known the truth for a long time now. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973/160 "2025-03-18T01:26:01Z")
My cable ISP, which never fails to piss me off, has done it again, big time. They had been using Yahoo as their outsourced email provider, rebranded to their own domain. Which was funny in a way because Yahoo is, amazingly, even more incompetent than they are, which is saying a lot! But still, it more or less worked, most of the time. Now they’ve announced that they’ve discontinued their relationship with Yahoo and everyone has just two days to migrate to their new email system or lose access forever. Gotta love the advance notice! But the worst thing is that the new system, which they simply refer to as “Webmail”, is almost impossible to get any information about, and what little info there is suggests that it does NOT have POP or IMAP access. IOW, you don’t appear to be able to use an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird. My best option at this point is to just ignore the whole fucking thing and start using Gmail for everything. The problem is that I have dozens of important contacts using the old ISP address, and I’m going to have to notify or manually change each and every one of them. Stupid me – I thought that a paid-for (part of my ISP subscription) mail service would be more stable and reliable than Gmail. I forgot about that incompetence thing. In fact the stable email address was the main reason I didn’t dump them years ago and switch to Bell fiber at a heavily discounted promotional rate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-on-with-your-bad-self-plant-your-march-mini-rants/1014973.md?page=9)